Gentoo and Lightscribe?

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cakofony · Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 152

Hi, I just purchased a "HP dvd840i Super Multi DVD Writer with LightScribe and Double Layer" and wanted to know if anybody has had success with this model. is the 4L program in portage yet? what kernel modules do I need to have enabled? also, what is DVD-RAM? thanks

Karsten1973 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

efwahl · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 2

MasquedAvenger · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject:

Does anybody know if Lacie is supported under a native 64-bit environment?

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MasquedAvenger · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject:

glurps · Apprentice Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 292

i have the same problem. did remerge libstdc++-v3. :cry:

glurps · Apprentice Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 292

lacie is aware of the problem... but they are slow.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-106197.html

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Moved from Kernel & Hardware to Unsupported Software.

truekaiser · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 801

new problem. the burner will only burn the original test image i used even though i used the program and selected a different image.

wschlich · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

Hey guys,

FYI: https://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/wschlich/browser/testing/app-cdr

I don't have an amd64 machine myself, thus I cannot test the amd64
multilib thingy and that's the reason I didn't already implement something like
that what's contained in the app-cdr/nero package.

I plan to add those packages to the official Portage tree soon, so
I'd be very happy to receive feedback from you, especially regarding
solutions for amd64.

You can use my "testing" overlay with layman like this:

njuk-njuk · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 65 Location: New York, NY

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l33tmmx · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:56 am Post subject:

wschlich · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:

njuk-njuk · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 65 Location: New York, NY

thought i'd post a quick reply to state that using my amd64 machine i did a trial run of the lacie lightscribe tool from the overlay. everything worked fine on its madien voyage. fwiw, the drive i have is a brand new Samsung SH-S183L.

njuk-njuk · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 65 Location: New York, NY

jeffj · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 37

I tried out the new lightscribe library (Lightscribe_1.6.43.1.rpm) by installing it without the overlay on my amd64 system. With both this version, and an earlier version, I can get the programs to run, but I cannot write a label with the LaCie software. If I try, I'm told I need root privileges even when I run the program as root. Everything else works, though.

I was going to try out the overlay, but I cannot find a lightscribe library old enough to match what the overlay wants.

I also tried out the software on an x86 system that I haven't kept up to date. All the LaCie software would do is cause a stack overflow in the C++ STL. I did try installing libstdc++-v3, but that didn't help.

So I'd have to guess the new lightscribe library is bad. Or maybe I missed something.

If anyone has a suggestion, I'll give it a try.

mister.woody · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 27

Thanks for the overlay. I am going to try it right now. Why not write an HOWTO for it?

jeffj · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 37

I made another attempt at getting Lightscribe to work. I succeeded on Ubuntu 7.04 on an old PC I revived, but I still can't get it working on Gentoo. I did see a similar problem on both before I got it working, though.

On x86 Gentoo, I got to the point where 4L-cli works fine from my user account, but cannot find any drives when run as root. It is consistent about not finding the drives using any of the commands, so printing doesn't work.

On x86 Ubuntu, I installed the Lightscribe software the same way and got the same result. Then I saw that people were adding a wheel user group and using a program called alien to make Debian install thingies out of the RPM files. I did the same. Alien complained that the 4L RPM had a post install script; I had it include the script. Then I installed using dpkg. That made it work.

I think the user group step was to avoid running 4L-cli as root for printing; it didn't help. So I think that post install script has the make-it-work magic. I haven't been able to get at the script from Gentoo. Anyone know how? I also don't have the right version of the Lightsrcibe libraries to use with the overlay. I've got 1.4.136.1, 1.6.43.1, and 1.6.45.1. I can't find 1.4.142.1.

On Amd64 Gentoo, I'm still stuck at needing root permissions when running 4L-cli as root.

Any help is appreciated.

I couldn't find a non-graphical program to make a text label suitable for using from scripts, so I made one. Doesn't work on Ubuntu, but its fine on Gentoo, so I'm still hoping to get this working on Gentoo.

wschlich · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject:

I just bumped app-cdr/lightscribe to 1.8.13.1. Please test :-)
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jeffj · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 37

The new ebuild makes lightscribe work on my AMD64 system. Thanks!

I noticed similar issues with 4L-gui. Not such a big deal for me since I've mostly been using 4L-cli or I stick with 4L-gui until is starts writing the label.

terrylava · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 8

Thank you wschlich. The AMD64 version works for me on my C2D with a Samsung S-182D.